I thank the Government for giving up its debating time to debate this issue; the Minister for Europe, Ben Macpherson, who was the initial

I speak in my capacity as convener of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee, so I will not make any comment on the policy implica

Having suffered a series of bloody noses at stage 2, the minister was keen to talk.

Andy Wightman’s amendment 207 is really useful.

Yesterday, Monica Lennon even accused me of betrayal. That is a strong word that I hope that she will reflect on.

I will not take interventions from Labour members; we have heard more than enough from them in the past two days.

So here we are at the end of the road of the most amended bill in the Scottish Parliament’s history.

This is where I part company with the minister. It had to happen. Amendment 138 strips out something that we put in at stage 2.

We have already heard that many—in fact, all—of these amendments were thrown out at stage 2. There are three elements to the amendments.

Although I supported Alex Cole-Hamilton at stage 2, this is an example of where we need to consider what we have passed.